Oregon State University - Beaver Yearbook (Corvallis, OR)

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SURF FISHING » one of the many attraction' to Oregon tourist . Third largest of Oregon’s revenue producing businesses is the tourist industry. An estimated 92 million dollars is the annual income of this growing business. Closely linked with the tourist industry are positions available to college students. Maintenance of national parks and forests provides opportunity for majors in the field of forestry. Management of resort and park areas offers the business student a chance to enter a unique vocational field. Publicity for such events as the Pendleton Roundup and Pacific International Livestock Exposition is often prepared by Oregon State college students who amplify their agricultural training with courses from the Journalism department. Agriculture as the second largest income producing business of the state afTords the student in agriculture innumerable opportunities for w'ork in a wide range of related fields. Students from OSC find that small businesses engaged in bulb growing and seed production, for example, need employees having the knowledge and ability of properly trained students. Oregon State college offers wide but well integrated curricula for the education of the men and women who contribute to the economy, culture, and society of Oregon. 5

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“Water is power” says Oregon’s Governor Douglas McKay. Abundant rainfall not only keeps Oregon green but piles up in surging rivers an inexhaustible source of power. It has been said, “. . . the Columbia as the last major waterway discovered and developed in the United States, remains our youngest river. It is one of our last frontiers, still in the dawn of its impact on civilization.” The Columbia has more than one-fourth of the nation’s potential water power. Increase of available power and rapid population growth give opportunity and challenge to Oregon industry. More than four hundred and fifty new industries have started in the Portland metropolitan area. At the same time older industries have expanded. These developments, supplementing longer established industries resting on agriculture and forestry, provide greater economic stability for Oregon. Oregon State college, center of science and technology, has a vital relation to the growth of industrial Oregon. The School of Engineering and Industrial Arts, the School of Business and Technology, and the School of Science serve industry through instruction, research and extension. Under its federal and state charter the entire institution is devoted to serving the industries, and professions of life. 7